The heart of the West End was plunged into darkness last Tuesday after an almighty power cut, the environment took no prisoners when it dimmed the bright lights of theatreland and attempted to ruin the opening night of “God of Carnage”.
Shaftesbury Avenue was hit pretty hard by the power cut and reduced Sir Cameron Mackintosh to beg his audience to stay and attempt to watch the rest of the show at the Gielgud Theatre. However after a ten minute disruption the show did go on, using only emergency stage lights and the front of house spotlight, Ralph Fiennes and the rest of the cast carried on to eventual applause. True to English form the audience got behind it and cheered the show on - I’m sure if Ralph wheeled out a piano and lit a few candles an olden day sing along would of occurred.
God of Carnage was not the only production to be hit by darkness, Les Mis got that bit more miserable as the audience had to leave due to the power cut. I think there is lesson to be learnt from this disaster, there is only one god of carnage - and that’s the environment!

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